Upcoming Appearances
April 24, 2024
Woodland Pattern Book Center
Milwaukee, WI
7:00 p.m. CST
Poetry Reading: Laura Tohe, Kimberly Blaeser, and Elise Paschen
Poetry Reading featuring Laura Tohe, current Navajo Nation Poet Laureate and author of Tseyí / Deep in the Rock (University of Arizona Press, 2005), Kimberly Blaeser, author of Ancient Light(University of Arizona Press, 2024), and Elise Paschen, author of Tallchief (Magic City Books, 2023). Presented as part of our series Native Writers in the 21st Century with support from the NEA.
April 25, 2024
Golda Meir Library
Conference Center
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2:30 p.m. CST
Conversation: Laura Tohe and Kimberly Blaeser
Join us for a conversation with author and librettist Laura Tohe and poet and photographer Kimberly Blaeser about interdisciplinary practices and collaborations. Both poets have engaged in several inter-arts projects, including Tohe’s librettos and Blaeser’s photography and picto-poems, among others. Each poet will read some of her own poems during the conversation as well.
April 26, 2024
The Commons
401 E. Jefferson St.
Viroqua, WI 54665
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. CST
Connections to Place Reading
Rivers and Ridges Book Festival
Book sales and author signings to follow the presentation.
April 27, 2024
Encore
114 S. Main St.
Viroqua, WI 54665
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. CST
Workshop: Voices We Carry: Generative Poetry with Kimberly Blaeser
Rivers and Ridges Book Festival
What “secret” knowledge do you hold? What stories do you carry from family and community? What languages do you know, what voices do you carry, what echoes from people, places, or spirits inhabit you? How can you “translate” these hauntings in your writing? This generative workshop will offer prompts, examples from other writers, and scaffolding exercises to inspire new work. We will experiment with a “jazz” poetry in which we join our disparate voices in one conversation, one creative piece.
April 27, 2024
Viroqua City Hall
124 W. Decker St.
Viroqua, WI 54665
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. CST
A Conversation About Home
Rivers and Ridges Book Festival
“Home” is a simple word, but its meaning can be complicated. Authors Kimberly Blaeser and David Shih discuss the places we call home—whether by birth, choice, or consequence—and how these physical or emotional places inform how we think, talk, and even write about them.
May 23, 2024
Overture Center for the Arts
Madison, Wisconsin.
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. CST
“Poetry and the Natural World”
Reading and Q&A with United Sates Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
Past Appearances
April 18, 2024
Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center
6:00 p.m. CST
Reading in conjunction with “Multiple Voices” Installation
“Multiple Voices” by Austrian artist Eva Schlegel includes work by Kimberly Blaeser. This event will inaugurate “Where Poetry Is” Series, Oklahoma State University. Class visits at Oklahoma State.
April 5, 2024
Pearson’s Hall, Beloit College
700 College St,
Beloit, WI
7:00 p.m. CST
Mackey Keynote Poetry Reading
Ojibwe poet Kimberly Blaeser will deliver this year’s Mackey Keynote Poetry reading accompanied by two other Indigenous Nations Poets at Beloit College. Kimberly Blaeser is author of Ancient Light. The event is free and open to the public.
Reading will include poets: Kalehua Kim & Halee Kirkwood
April 2, 2024
7:00 p.m. CST
Virtual Writing Workshop, Wisconsin Writers Association
March 28, 2024
Northern Illinois University,
Sky Room, Holmes Student Center, DeKalb, IL
3:30 p.m. CST
POETRY READING FEATURING KIMBERLY BLAESER
March 14, 2024
Detroit Lakes, MN Public Library
1000 Washington Ave.
Detroit Lakes, MN 56501
7:00 p.m. CST
POETRY READING FEATURING KIMBERLY BLAESER
Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining your library for a poetry reading featuring past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and Mahnomen High School graduate Kimberly Blaeser. Blaeser will read from her Ancient Light collection of poetry, accompanied by a visual photography slideshow, which invokes an ancient belonging and the voice of the deep relatedness the poet experiences in the watery regions of Minnesota. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Kimberly Blaeser is a member of the White Earth Nation, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, the author of six poetry collections and a photographer. The program is offered free-of-charge thanks in part to funding from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
March 13, 2024
Mahnomen Public School
209 S. 1st St.
Mahnomen, MN 56557
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. CST
POETRY READING FEATURING KIMBERLY BLAESER
Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining your library for a poetry reading featuring past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and Mahnomen High School graduate Kimberly Blaeser. Blaeser will read from her Ancient Light collection of poetry, accompanied by a visual photography slideshow, which invokes an ancient belonging and the voice of the deep relatedness the poet experiences in the watery regions of Minnesota.
This program will be held in partnership with the Manoomin Arts Initiative and Mahnomen American Indian Education. A meal will be served at 5:30 p.m. curtesy of Mahnomen American Indian Education. Kimberly Blaser will begin speaking at 6 p.m., with a book signing and giveaways to follow. Attendees can enter Mahnomen Public School through cafeteria door #2.
Kimberly Blaeser is a member of the White Earth Nation, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, the author of six poetry collections and a photographer. The program is offered free-of-charge thanks in part to funding from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
March 13-14, 2024
Mahnomen Public School
209 S. 1st St.
Mahnomen, MN 56557
Writing Workshops
March 12, 2024
Climax, MN Public Library
104 W. Broadway
Climax, MN 56523
6:00 p.m. CST
POETRY READING FEATURING KIMBERLY BLAESER
Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining your library for a poetry reading featuring past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and Mahnomen High School graduate Kimberly Blaeser. Blaeser will read from her Ancient Light collection of poetry, accompanied by a visual photography slideshow, which invokes an ancient belonging and the voice of the deep relatedness the poet experiences in the watery regions of Minnesota. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Kimberly Blaeser is a member of the White Earth Nation, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, the author of six poetry collections and a photographer. The program is offered free-of-charge thanks in part to funding from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
March 11, 2024
Crookston, MN Public Library
110 N. Ash St,
Crookston, MN 56716
6:00 p.m. CST
POETRY READING FEATURING KIMBERLY BLAESER
Celebrate National Poetry Month by joining your library for a poetry reading featuring past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and Mahnomen High School graduate Kimberly Blaeser. Blaeser will read from her Ancient Light collection of poetry, accompanied by a visual photography slideshow, which invokes an ancient belonging and the voice of the deep relatedness the poet experiences in the watery regions of Minnesota. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Kimberly Blaeser is a member of the White Earth Nation, founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, the author of six poetry collections and a photographer. The program is offered free-of-charge thanks in part to funding from the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
March 6, 2024
Murphy Auditorium
Wick Poetry, Kent State University
7:00 p.m. ET
POETRY READING FEATURING KIMBERLY BLAESER
Kimberly Blaeser, past Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, is the author of six poetry collections including Ancient Light, Copper Yearning, and the bilingual Résister en dansant/Ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance. An enrolled member of White Earth Nation, she is an Anishinaabe activist and environmentalist. Blaeser, an MFA faculty member at the Institute of American Indian Arts and a Professor Emerita at UW–Milwaukee, currently serves as a Vassar College Tatlock Fellow and the 2024 Mackey Chair in Creative Writing at Beloit College. She lives in rural Wisconsin and in a seasonal cabin near the BWCA wilderness.
March 1, 2024
A/P/A Institute at NYU
20 Cooper Square
Third Floor
New York, NY 10003
United States
7:00 p.m. ET - 9:00 p.m. ET
“Not One Without the Other:” A Reading and Conversation on Creativity and Community
How can the work of writers contribute to building sustainable and inclusive futures for our communities? How can the work of community organizations contribute to creative work? And how can the arts serve as a tool of empowerment, liberation, and solidarity? Literary organizations like Cave Canem, CantoMundo, Kundiman, Indigenous Nations Poets, Fire & Ink, Mizna, and Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI) were convened with the goal of creating spaces for marginalized writers to develop their craft and find community and connection with one another.
This reading and conversation features George Abraham (executive editor of Mizna and Kundiman Fellow), Samiya Bashir (founding organizer of Fire & Ink and Cave Canem Fellow), Kimberly Blaeser (founding executive director of Indigenous Nations Poets), Cathy Linh Che (executive director of Kundiman), Deborah Paredez (co-founder of CantoMundo), and Glenn Shaheen (president and executive director of RAWI). They will explore what it means to lead, create, and write, centering the idea “not one without the other.”
February 27, 2024
OLB Lounge, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Methodologies of Acknowledgement: Native American Collaborative Poetics
Poetry Reading by Tatlock Chair Molly McGlennen and Tatlock Fellow Kim Blaeser
February 16, 2024
University of California Riverside
Reading, 47th UCR Writers Week Festival
Kimberly Blaeser–Anishinaabe, In-Na-Po founder, 6 poetry books–Ancient Light. Dr. Daisy Ocampo Diaz–Decolonize Public History–Where We Belong: Chemehuevi and Caxcan Preservation of Sacred Mountains Randi LeClair (Pawnee Nation) Filmmaker–Native stories based in rural Oklahoma
AWP 2024
Wednesday February 7th, 2024
9AM
6 - 8PM
Thursday February 8th, 2024
1-2 PM
Friday February 9th, 2024
10:35 - 11:50AM
3:20 - 4:35PM
7 - 8:45PM
Saturday February 10th, 2024
10:00AM - Noon
5:30 - 7PM
KCUR 89.3 Radio Interview
NPR Kansas City
Poetry as Reciprocity: Indigenous Nations Poets Celebrate Language Back at AWP
Kimberly Blaeser, Heid E. Erdrich, Jake Skeets, Elise Paschen
Kansas City Public Library, 14W 10th St Kansas City, MO 64105
Book Signing Ancient Light
University of Arizona Press Booth #821
Kansas City Convention Center, 301 W 13th St, Kansas City, MO
Language Back: A Reading and Conversation with Indigenous Nations Poets
Jake Skeets, Luci Tapahanso, Esther Belin, Kimberly Blaeser
Grand Ballroom A, Kansas City Convention Center, 301 W 13th St, Kansas City, MO
When We River: IN-NA-PO Poets & Hydro-Poetics
Annie Wenstrup, Kimberly Blaeser, Kalehua Kim, Aimee Inglis, Casandra Lopez
Room 2103A, Kansas City Convention Center, 301 W 13th St, Kansas City, MO
Poetry as Reciprocity: Indigenous Nations Poets Celebrate Language Back at AWP
Kimberly Blaeser, Heid E. Erdrich, Jake Skeets, Elise Paschen
Kansas City Public Library Plaza Branch, Truman Auditorium 4801 Main St Kansas City, MO
Book Signing Ancient Light
IN-NA-PO Booth #1425
Kansas City Convention Center, 301 W 13th St, Kansas City, MO
Reading, Words of the People: An Indigenous Language Reading
Bliss Books & Wine
3502 Gilliam Rd, Kansas City, MO
November 8, 2023
Lieu Unique
Nantes, FR
7:30 pm GMT+1
KIMBERLY BLAESER ET BÉATRICE MACHET
En partenariat avec l’Université de Saint-Étienne et la Médiathèque de Garches
Pour les peuples amérindiens dont la culture principalement orale, chantée et dansée est en train de disparaître, l’écriture s’impose comme un moyen de survie. C’est par cet acte de résistance que KIMBERLY BLAESER, descendante de la nation Anishinaabe d’Amérique du nord, en mêlant anglais et langue anishinaabemowin, célèbre les traditions et les mythes des Amérindien·nes, leur communion avec la nature, et dénonce les traumatismes du colonialisme. Son recueil Résister en dansant – ikwe-niimi: Dancing Resistance (Éditions des Lisières, 2020) a été traduit par Béatrice Machet.
BÉATRICE MACHET est poète (une quinzaine de livres publiés) et traductrice. Elle est membre du collectif Écrits Studio, réalise et anime une émission dédiée à la poésie contemporaine sur radio Agora et conçoit des pièces sonores pour la scène et la radio. Spécialiste de la littérature amérindienne, elle a publié trois anthologies et a traduit plus d’une trentaine d’auteur.e.s contemporain.e.s, dont Kimberly Blaeser, Michael Wasson ou Diane Glancy. Elle donne plusieurs conférences et anime une rubrique dans la revue Recours au poème sur ce sujet.
November 10, 2023
Médiathèque de Garches
Garches, FR
Nous aurons le plaisir de recevoir l'écrivaine, photographe et professeure native-américaine Kimberly Blaeser pour son recueil de poèmes "Résister en dansant" ainsi que Béatrice Machet, sa traductrice aux éditions Les Lisières. Ce temps d'échange s'articulera autour de sa vie et de son cheminement d'écriture. Une dédicace sera prévue à la fin de la rencontre.
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